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Re: Patience makes perfect



lab pagh-le'

As the KLBC has been removed from the subject line, I'm going to repond to
the grammar in thi in case taD misses it.

>> Using beginner sentences alone, you can recognizably describe a whole
>> episode.  It *IS* harder to describe things we don't have words for.  So
>> don't start with that.  You will enjoy more success if you start with an
>> easier task.
>
>toH! jIyaj. 

maj.  QaQ pab.  bIyajmo' QaQ je.

[Good.  The grammar is good.  It's also good that you understand.]

>mu'mey vISov 'e' puS.

The word 'e' makes the "sentence-as-object" construction.  Whatever you put
before the 'e' has to be the direct object of the verb you put after it.
The verb /puS/ means "be few" or "sight (with gunsight)".  So /mu'mey vISov
'e' puS/ means either "He draws a bead that I know the words" or "He fews
that I know the words," neither of which makes any sense.  

I think you intended to say "I know a few of the words"  or maybe "I know
few words."

mu'mey puS (See TKD 4.4) = "few words"

Try:
mu'mey puS vISov - I know few words.
mu'meyvetlh puS vISov - I know a few of those words.







Qov


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